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cprise

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8. And money doesn't grow on trees

Reply to NNadir (Reply #7)

Wed Mar 23, 2016, 07:17 AM

Mar 2016

Its conjured up on bankers' keyboards. Its a good thing for them they own most of the centralized generation, or their business model could have been history a generation ago.

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Well, that and twisting it into an anti-solar rant. cprise Mar 2016 #5

Hence the summary, cprise: more to the point. n/t Ghost Dog Mar 2016 #6

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